News Elite Travel Group’s Sustainability Plan Posted on 23 June 2023 At Elite Travel Group we aim to provide a sustainable environment for ourselves, colleagues, and the community. Sustainability is a reality that we have embraced and decided to build our working model around, hoping to inspire everyone who interacts with us to turn it into a lifestyle. We have decided to take appropriate actions to reduce as much as possible the negative impact on the environment and society of our operations. We strive to create a better future, making every day better than yesterday and making a positive impact on our customers, suppliers, and associates. We work hard to create an example of best practices in the country and region. Our goal is for sustainability policies to be everywhere in the company, from the management level to the execution level. Staff, suppliers, and collaborators are expected to adhere to the objectives within this framework whenever possible within existing budgets. Although we understand that our influence on the actions and third parties is tight, we try and do our best to inform them about our sustainability policies and encourage them to align their operating practices with the objectives of this policy. Sustainability: Management and Legal Compliance To manage our sustainability policies, we are committed to having a sustainability coordinator who has completed the basic training and examination from Travel Life, who is in charge of monitoring, reporting, and implementing the sustainability policies and action plan. Following this decision, we have explained and made public the sustainability mission statement and policy. Their success guarantees carrying out a basic assessment of the company’s performance for sustainable practices and to ensure transparency regarding sustainability through reporting and public communication. An important part of this practice is the involvement of staff in the plan to be fully informed and ready to implement sustainability policies. This whole process is in harmony with the provided legal framework. Sustainability: Central internal management We provide all our employees with the freedom of employment and termination of the contract with notice and without penalty, including in their contracts working conditions following national employment law, job description, and wage rates equal to or above the statutory wage national. Also, we determine and compensate for overtime work based on agreement. Another important part of internal social management is social and health insurance according to national law. We offer employees a fixed annual salary for holidays and leave for health reasons. It is important to us to provide equal opportunities concerning recruitment, terms of employment, training opportunities, and senior positions for every candidate and we do not discriminate concerning gender, race, age, special abilities, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. We have a health and safety policy for employees that complies with national legal standards and ensure that they have first aid kits and trained staff available in all relevant locations. National regulations regarding the minimum age for employment apply. We do our best to regularly measure employee satisfaction and complaints and take measures for improvement. We offer opportunities to our employees to gain experience like their work and to advance in their careers within the company. We declare that we do not prevent membership in trade unions, collective labor negotiations, and the representation of members by trade unions. Sustainability: Internal environmental management We are committed to actively reducing and (where possible) avoiding the use of consumer goods and disposable or limited-function products. We take action to improve internal waste management in compliance with the law by implementing waste reduction methods. Sustainability: Partner Agencies We have undertaken to inform strategic partners about national and Travelife standards on tourism, the sustainability policy of travel companies, and that they are expected to comply with it and/or communicate it to end customers where necessary. We practice including key sustainability clauses in contracts with inbound/host partners and motivate them to participate in sustainability training for travel companies. Durability: Transport We do our best to motivate and encourage partners to have their accommodations certified for sustainability. We prefer and select accommodations that are locally owned and managed, or that employ local communities, encouraging them to follow best practices for responsible tourism. Another important part is the inclusion of standard sustainability clauses in all contracts with accommodation providers that focus on child labor, anti-corruption, bribery, waste management, and biodiversity protection. We work with accommodations and restaurants that incorporate elements of local art, architecture, or cultural heritage; respecting the intellectual property rights of local communities. We ensure that throughout our accommodation supply chain, the rights of children are respected and protected, and have a zero-tolerance policy towards child sexual exploitation. Termination of cooperation with accommodation in case of clear evidence that contracted accommodation endangers the provision of the integrity of basic services such as food, water, energy, health care, or land to neighboring companies is indisputable. Sustainability: Excursions and activities We have an inventory of environmentally or culturally sensitive excursions available in every destination. Advising guests on standards of conduct during excursions and activities with a focus on respecting the local culture, nature, and environment and not offering any excursion that harms people, animals, plants, natural resources such as water and energy, or is socially unacceptable and cultural is a necessity for us. This also includes not offering any excursions in which wild animals are mistreated, except for activities properly regulated following local, national, and international law, and not being involved with companies that consume, exhibit, sell, or trade wild animal species, unless it is part of a regulated activity that ensures their presence is sustainable and in compliance with local, national, and international law. We ensure that we have qualified and/or certified guides to guide our guests in culturally sensitive sites, heritage sites, or ecologically sensitive destinations. Promoting and advising our guests on excursions and activities that directly involve and support local communities by purchasing services or goods, traditional crafts, and local production methods (food), or by visiting social projects or excursions and activities that support the local […]
Elite Travel Group’s Sustainability Plan
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